History of the Upper Mississippi ValleyCharles S. Bryant Minnesota Historical Company, 1881 - 716 pages |
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... native of the state of Maine , born in the year 1840. When he was fourteen years of age , the family removed to Iowa , and Granville learned the trade of machin- ist , at Lansing , in that state . He came to Anoka in 1866 , and was ...
... native of the state of Maine , born in the year 1840. When he was fourteen years of age , the family removed to Iowa , and Granville learned the trade of machin- ist , at Lansing , in that state . He came to Anoka in 1866 , and was ...
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Charles S. Bryant. ELISHA C. STORMS is a native of New York State , born on the 25th of March , 1837. He was raised on a farm in his native state , and in 1864 , removed to Lake Forest , Illinois , where he was employed at the ...
Charles S. Bryant. ELISHA C. STORMS is a native of New York State , born on the 25th of March , 1837. He was raised on a farm in his native state , and in 1864 , removed to Lake Forest , Illinois , where he was employed at the ...
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... native of Georgetown , Brown county , Ohio , and was born on the 25th of May , 1838. His native county was his home until 1867 , when he came to Anoka and purchased the business of an artist named Cook , who was the first photographer ...
... native of Georgetown , Brown county , Ohio , and was born on the 25th of May , 1838. His native county was his home until 1867 , when he came to Anoka and purchased the business of an artist named Cook , who was the first photographer ...
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... native state , coming to Anoka in 1875 , which has since been his residence . The shops of which he has the supervision , turn out about four thousand barrels monthly and furnish employment to twenty men . DELOS S. CRANE is a native of ...
... native state , coming to Anoka in 1875 , which has since been his residence . The shops of which he has the supervision , turn out about four thousand barrels monthly and furnish employment to twenty men . DELOS S. CRANE is a native of ...
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... native State claimed him as a resident until 1838 , when he removed to Cattaraugus county , New York , where he was engaged in cabinet- DAVID E. HARDY is a native of Windsor county , Vermont , and was born on the 1st of January , 1827 ...
... native State claimed him as a resident until 1838 , when he removed to Cattaraugus county , New York , where he was engaged in cabinet- DAVID E. HARDY is a native of Windsor county , Vermont , and was born on the 1st of January , 1827 ...
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Page 19 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 206 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 206 - ... or the grant to such State shall cease; and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid ; Fourth.
Page 124 - The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.
Page 203 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Page 206 - Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease...
Page 464 - Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion ? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest, crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race that long has passed away Built them ; — a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
Page 205 - That when the lands in the said Territory shall be surveyed under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be and the same are hereby reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in said Territory, and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of the same.
Page 216 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form...